Editing Les Dawson (section)

==Legacy==
On 23 October 2008, 15 years after his death, a bronze statue by Graham Ibbeson was unveiled by his widow Tracy and daughter Charlotte in the ornamental gardens next to the pier in [[Lytham St Annes|St Anne's-on-Sea]], Lancashire, where Dawson lived for many years.<ref name="BBC7685723">{{cite news |title=Dawson statue unveiled by family |publisher=[[bbc.co.uk]] |date=23 October 2008 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7685723.stm |access-date=13 November 2008}}</ref>

In the ''Comedians' Comedian'', a three-hour programme on UK's [[Channel 4]] on 1 January 2005, Dawson was 37th in the top 50 comedians of all time, voted by fellow comedians and business insiders.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2004/12/01/26/the_comedians_comedian|title=The comedians' comedian|date=1 December 2004|work=Chortle.co.uk|access-date=1 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130115750/http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2004/12/01/26/the_comedians_comedian|archive-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>

The BBC broadcast, on [[BBC Two]], ''The Many Faces of Les Dawson'', a retrospective, on Christmas Eve 2011.

On 1 June 2013 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] broadcast ''Les Dawson: An Audience with That Never Was''. The programme featured a [[Pepper's ghost]] projection of Dawson, presenting content for a 1993 edition of ''[[An Audience with...]]'' to be hosted by Dawson but unused due to his death two weeks before recording.<ref>{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Logan |title=Can a hologram Les Dawson tell 'em like he used to?|newspaper=The Guardian |date= 31 May 2013|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/31/hologram-les-dawson-comedian-last-show |access-date=10 September 2013}}</ref> The show served as a tribute and featured celebrities including [[Bruce Forsyth]], Cilla Black, [[Terry Wogan]] and [[Ken Dodd]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=158021263|title=TV Guide UK|website=TVGuide.co.uk|access-date=13 April 2018}}</ref> Also among the audience were Dawson's widow Tracy and daughter Charlotte.

On 10 February 2014, the BBC reported that Dawson's daughter Charlotte had found a 110-page "unpublished story of love and mystery, titled ''An Echo of Shadows'', [that] was written under the name Maria Brett-Cooper...".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26065349 "Les Dawson wrote secret romantic novel in woman's name"] at BBC News, accessed 13 September 2014.</ref>

In 2020, Les Dawson's early years in Paris were portrayed in [[Sky Arts|Sky Arts']] series ''[[Urban Myths (TV series)|Urban Myths]]'' in the episode ''Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure'', with [[Mark Addy]] as the older Les and [[John Bradley (English actor)|John Bradley]] as young Les.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13188544/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=IMDb – Urban Myths – Les Dawson's Parisienne Adventure|website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=9 October 2020}}</ref>

In 2022, [[Jon Culshaw]] portrayed Dawson as part of The Edinburgh Assembly's Fringe programme.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Impressionist Jon Culshaw on paying a heartfelt tribute to Les Dawson with his new Edinburgh Festival Fringe |url=https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/impressionist-jon-culshaw-on-paying-a-heartfelt-tribute-to-les-dawson-with-his-new-edinburgh-festival-fringe-show-3641590 |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=www.scotsman.com |date=6 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>